Word: giovannetti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even some of those who went to Moscow found ways to register visible dissent that not even the Soviets could censor. Traditionally, each winner has his nation's flag hoisted and its national anthem rendered when he receives his medal. Luciano Giovannetti of Italy, who won the gold medal in trapshooting, was the first champion to have the Olympic flag and hymn used at his ceremony (Italy and a number of other Western European countries chose to participate in Moscow but to protest by using Olympic symbols instead of their own). Tears rose in his eyes afterward when...